Adjustable support for smoke-shells.



A. HOYER. ADJUSTABLE SUPPORT FOR SMOKE SHELLS.

APPLICATION FILED MAY 6, 1910.

Patented July 4, 1911.

ANTON I-IOYER, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

ADJUSTABLE SUPPORT FOR SMOKE-SHELLS.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented July 4, 1911.

Application filed May 6, 1910. Serial No. 559,884.

To all whom it may concern:

Be itknown that I, ANTON Horne, a citizen of the United States, andresiding at Chicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, haveinvented a new and useful Improvement in Adjustable Supports forSmoke-Shells, of which the following is a complete specification.

The main objects of this invention are to provide means for supportingsmoke shells above gas or other flame lights to protect the ceiling ofthe room from injury due to smoke and heat from the flame; to provide anadjustable support for smoke shells which may be easily adjusted tobring the shell directly over the fiame; to provide means for supportingsmoke shells without attaching them to the ceiling; and to provide avery cheap, simple and effective device which is capable of beingdetachably mounted on the gas pipe or fixture stem.

A specific construction embodying the in vention is illustrated in theaccompanying drawings, in which:

Figure 1 is a side elevation of the adjustable support. Fig. 2 is anenlarged section taken on line 22 of Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is an enlargedsection taken on line 3-3 of Fig. 1. Fig. 4 is a top plan view of thesupport. Fig. 5 is a fragmentary plan View of the adjustable supportadapted to support four shells.

Fig. 6 is a fragmentary plan view of the support adapted to support twoshells.

In the construction shown the support comprises two bars or othermembers 1 and 2, which are telescopingly connected together to permitthe support to be adjusted longitudinally. Said members may be of anypreferred construction and material, but as shown they each comprise abar or strip of metal having sufiicient rigidity to prevent its bendingunder the weight of the shell, and the adjacent or overlapping ends ofthe members are forked. The prongs 3 and 4: of the forks are spreadapart and bent around the upper and lower edges of the adjacent member,so as to secure the members together but permit each to slide throughthe fork of the other.

The free end 5 of the member 1 is bent around the gas pipe 6 and isbrought back against the member and is secured thereto in gripping orclamping engagement about the pipe by means of a loop 7.wl1ich isslidably mounted on the member and is adapted and a short clamping isprovided which case, in order to have them at the same height, themembers 1 are formed of a single bar 10 which is curved centrally at 11to conform to one side of the gas pipe 6,

bar 12 is curved centrally at 13, and oppositely from the bar 10 toconform to the opposite side'of the pipe. The ends of the bar 12 lieflat against the bar 10 and are secured thereto by means of loops 7.

Where it is desired to employ four supports, as shown in Fig. 5, eachmember 1 is bent near its free end 14. to provide a portion 15 at anangle of 45 degrees to the main portion of the member, and said end isbent at an angle of 90 degrees to the member. Each portion 15 isprovided with a slightly curved portion 16 adjacent to the pipe 6. Whenthe members 1 are arranged about the pipe with the end 1% of each memberlying against the next adjacent member, the members may be secured inposition by the clamping loops 7 The same method may be employed forattaching three supports to the pipe.

The operation of the construction shown is as follows: The member 1 isclamped to the pipe by'means of the loop 7, which, when forced towardthe pipe and over the end of the member, binds the member firmly againstthe pipe. In this manner the device may be quickly clamped to pipes ofvarious sizes. The member 2 may then be adjusted to bring the hook 8 tothe desired distance. from the pipe to support the smoke shell directlyabove the flame.

While but one specific embodiment of the invention has been herein shownand described it will be understood that various details of theconstruction shown may be varied or omitted without departing from thespirit of the invention.

I claim:

A support for smoke shells,

comprising longitudinally adjustable bars adapted to In Witness whereofI have hereunto subeXtend laterally from in gas fixture, each barscribed my name in the presence of two having a curved portion near itsinner end adapted to bear directly against said fixture, Witnesses, withthe end of the bar lying flat against the ANTON HOYER. next adj ucentbar and a loop slidably Witnesses:

W. WV. VVITHERBURY,

mounted on each bar and adapted to bind JOHN CORWIN.

said end thereto.

Gopies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressingthe Commissioner of Patents,

Washington, D. G.

